Absoultely! the idea that serotonin is involved in depression in some complex, unspecified way 'is equivalent to saying that blood is involved in depression. It surely is, but this has little bearing on the nature, origins or causation of depression' nature.com/articles/s4138…

It’s dehumanizing to use the language of medicine to frame mental health struggles—‘symptom,’ ‘disorder,’ ‘diagnosis.’ They strip us of agency and context, replacing the humanistic language of ‘problem,’ ‘crisis,’ and ‘reaction.’

Great to present at the critical psychiatry conference today at UCL in London. In the q&a I addressed the co-option of critical ideas by government to justify inhumane cuts to disability. Some of my thoughts below 👇🤓

What they constantly ignore is how much people ARE contributing. People in poverty are single parents, aged care, disability care and so much more. We build communities and provide money and food to those who don't have it even when we don't have it.

Very sad news. A fine man gone too early.

Happy birthday Paul Robeson. One of my heroes. Persecuted and destroyed by the American empire. youtube.com/watch?v=1fvZae…

This year's European Congress of Psychiatry was sponsored by the following pharmaceutical companies: Boehringer Ingelheim Johnson & Johnson Teva Idorsia Otsuka Biogen Viatris Adamed Labs Fidia labs Gedeon Richter Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG Who said Pharma's pulling out?

On this day on 14 April 1931 the 2nd Spanish Republic was declared. Its arrival was greeted with euphoria by progressive Spain, including intially by anarchist masses. Its greatest achievement: creating some 16,000 schools until crushed by Franco +his Nazi-fascist allies in 1939

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨Senior Liberal Party figure Warren Mundine has appeared spruiking "Make Australia Great Again". The revelations follow Jacinta Price delivering the MAGA slogan, backtracking, then blaming media "Trump obsession". Coalition already in poll pain theklaxon.com.au/9nng

Good discussion of what antidepressants do How the chemical imbalance hypothesis became a dogma in science and popular culture And why we should use and administer them carefully By psychiatrist Dr Joanna Moncrieff

Labor axed cashless debit card... and renamed it the SmartCard. Almost 30k people on compulsory income control at end of its term, Indue receiving another $21m, consultations reject "humiliating" and "suffocating" policy. Dutton could do what he wanted. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…

"'The system wasn't broken; it was built this way.' Four years after Victoria's Mental Health Royal Commission, I examine why reform is stalling and what lessons we can take from the process. croakey.org/lessons-from-a…

Excellent critique by Simon Katterl of the 4 Corners program on the mental health crisis in NSW simonkatterlconsulting.com/writing/pql5gw…

Check out our report into employment services abuse and rorting from 2023. This industry has had a free reign for almost 30 years at a great cost to people forced into the system, and the billions of $'s wasted in lining poverty profiteers pockets. punishmentforprofit.org

Predictions that the market for antidepressants will double in the next 10 years as the tidal wave of medicalisation goes global media.market.us/antidepressant…

Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Conversation with Stijn Vanheule Vanheule reflects on psychosis not as pathology but as an attempt to reassemble a livable world. By Ayurdhi Dhar madinamerica.com/2025/06/why-ps…

My friend and colleague Dr. Tarek Loubani is working in Gaza right now as a medical doctor. Listen to his words. Then do something, do everything you can, to stop this genocide. Tarek Loubani

This is a propagandist dressed up as an envoy. What a dreadful appointment. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

EXPOSED: The U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) tried to build a local network of aid collaborators to serve Israel’s military goals. Aid was weaponized. Those who refused were shut down. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/this-i…